Healthcare IT News September 13, 2023
Electronic health records that deliver suboptimal user experience are more likely to lead to alert fatigue and less likely to catch errors that could impact hospital safety, University of Utah Health research shows.
“Hospitals and health systems have spent more than $100 billion on EHRs over the last decade, and most believe that these systems are completely safe and usable but that is not necessarily the case,” said Dr. David Classen, a professor of internal medicine at University of Utah Health
THE LARGER TREND
Because of this inherent risk in poorly designed electronic health records, all hospitals should “annually perform a safety check on their system to assure it is safe,” said Classen, whose EHR research is published in the most...
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